{"id":9047,"date":"2006-07-03T18:08:21","date_gmt":"2006-07-03T18:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9047"},"modified":"2006-07-03T18:08:21","modified_gmt":"2006-07-03T18:08:21","slug":"killer-mutant-tv-b-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9047","title":{"rendered":"Killer Mutant TV-B-Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/tvBGone2.jpg\">You&#8217;ve likely heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvbgone.com\/\" target=\"new\">TV-B-Gone<\/a>, the universal OFF button for television. While this thing is little more than a gag gift, and at US$25, a rather pricey one, it has gained something of a cult following among pranksters. Trying to listen to a singer in a club while drunks at the bar are hooting it up over a game on TV? TV-B-Gone! Wanna mess with the Blue Shirts in the TV dept at Best Buy? TV-B-Gone!<\/p>\n<p> To extend the range of TV-B-Gone from between 20-50&#8242; to some 90&#8242;, m_jake, the same DIY guy who did an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/E6PN27M4CPEP286H58\/\" target=\"new\">Instructables<\/a> for my Mousey the Junkbot, has created the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/ELSIDWXRAFEP2881ZQ\/?ALLSTEPS\" target=\"new\">Ultra TV-B-Gone<\/a>, which has a 20-bulb array of ifrared LEDs and a 9v battery. M_jake also brought us the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/EPPWR0XGYFEP287YQW\/\" target=\"new\">TV-B-Gone hat<\/a>. This geek is a one-man TV terminator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve likely heard about TV-B-Gone, the universal OFF button for television. While this thing is little more than a gag gift, and at US$25, a rather pricey one, it has gained something of a cult following among pranksters. Trying to listen to a singer in a club while drunks at the bar are hooting it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9047\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Killer Mutant TV-B-Gone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}